Fontana School Police Get Colt Assault Rifles

If L.A. has its own white Detroit -- you know, redneck and working class (think Kid Rock and Eminem) -- it's Fontana, birthplace of Hells Angels, home of the old the Kaiser Steel Mill.

Tattoos, thick arms and decorative testicles dangling from four-wheel-drive trucks are at home here. So, apparently, are school police officers who carry semiautomatic assault rifles. Prospective school shooters be warned -- Fontana will destroy you:

The Fontana Unified School District police force is not only freshly armed with Colt 6040 rifles, but it has already been trained with them despite a recent, December delivery, Chief Billy Green tells the Weekly.

Dennis Romero is an L.A. Weekly staff writer. He formerly worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian and, as a young stringer, the New York Times.